Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

[Barry Shein <bzs () world std com>]

On July 26, 2010 at 14:42 brunner () nic-naa net (Eric Brunner-Williams) wrote:
> When Hewlett-Packard wrote to ICANN earlier this year that it should 
> get .hp, the obvious rejoinder was "Buy a country like everyone else, 
> submit a change request to the iso3166/MA, and do business under .hp, 
> your new country code property." Apparently HP didn't want to actually 
> buy a country first. Cheapskates.

HP doesn't even have HP as a stock symbol, that'd be Helmerich &
Payne, a contract oil/gas driller. The computer company can be traded
under symbol HPC.

  "Happy name spaces are all alike; every unhappy name space is unhappy
   in its own way." -- !Tolstoy

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